Georgette Jones Lennon, one of Tammy Wynette's four daughters, at her mother's crypt at Woodlawn Cemetery on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 in Nashville. / Sanford Myers, The (Nashville) Tennessean

by Tom Wilemon, The (Nashville) Tennessean

by Tom Wilemon, The (Nashville) Tennessean

NASHVILLE -- Tammy Wynette's professional name will be restored to her crypt because the person who owns the mausoleum space has agreed to the change, according to Wynette's daughter Jackie Daly.

A representative of Woodlawn Memorial Park informed her Wednesday that her stepsister, Deirdre Richardson Hale, had given the OK to change the name Virginia W. Richardson on the crypt back to Tammy Wynette. She said the letters on the crypt could possibly be changed by Friday afternoon.

Wynette's four daughters were seeking a court order to get the name changed when she got the news. Daly said she assumed her stepsister had a change of heart because of media attention and a Facebook page launched by fans of the singer seeking "A Restoration."

"We were just going to go ahead and start raising the money to move her, but we didn't have to do that," Daly said.

The name on the crypt was changed in 2012 to Virginia W. Richardson, 14 years after the singer's 1998 death.

Wynette's name was changed on the crypt when her children and the children of her husband, George Richey, were contemplating a challenge to the sale of their parents' intellectual property to a music publishing company a few months before Richey's 2010 death.

Richey, a songwriter and record producer whose birth name was Richardson, inherited business rights to Wynette's music and trademarks after her 1998 death. He remarried in 2001.

Wynette's four daughters agreed to the name change on the advice of their stepsister, an attorney, after being told it would be temporary and was legally necessary. But a challenge to the sale of the intellectual property never occurred. Hale was sued for defamation by her stepmother, Sheila Richey.

Sheila Richey had George Richey's remains removed from his crypt after Wynette's name was changed.